Nebraska Snowflakes: The Coaching
October 10th, 2021 at 12:43 AM ^
By biggest complaint was going for the 2-point conversion up by 12 in the 3rd quarter. I never support going for two until end-of-game situations. That's when you know whether you actually need the second point, or not. Until then, take the easy ones.
When a team fails to convert, more often than not, that lost point comes back to bite them, as it almost did here.
October 10th, 2021 at 9:21 AM ^
Completely agree. Take the extra point every time until you need 2.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:54 AM ^
For a right footed kicker that left hash is sometimes preferred. They were clearly going for the first down (and if the TE had gotten the block in the edge maybe would have gotten it) but the placement wasn’t the disaster it might have been
October 10th, 2021 at 1:17 AM ^
I’m sure Harbaugh asked Moody which hash he wants it on. I know even in nfl some right footed kickers like it on the left hash.
October 10th, 2021 at 11:11 AM ^
Putting JJ out there was highly questionable. I'm not against putting him in with a set of plays in general, but what makes him successful is teams have to account for everyone from the receivers to the QB because he can make every throw and also run. In that situational, there's no threat of pass so they can just tee off on the QB keeper.
October 10th, 2021 at 11:38 AM ^
Mark my words, against OSU McCarthy will come in, run left, and throw a frozen rope across the field for a walk in TD.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:40 PM ^
A lot of kickers prefer one hashmark or the other. Moody tends to put a slight draw on his kicks. As a righty, it's not hard to see him being more comfortable from the left hashmark. But the kid is really good and he was going to make that kick wherever it was snapped from.
October 9th, 2021 at 11:29 PM ^
They were good. I'm not quick to say "there's something different," but this is the kind of game that could easily have been lost, and the team was ready.
Not a huge fan of how seldom they attacked the edges and some other call issues, but the staff made the choice to throw a lot and it paid off.
October 9th, 2021 at 11:29 PM ^
The critiques and finer observations can wait until I sober up.... right now shoot the Harbaugh-Hutchinson postgame yell straight into my veins! The passion is definitely back to 2015-16 levels!!
October 10th, 2021 at 12:44 AM ^
Yes, if only they had some players on offense they could use to attack this"edge" of which you speak. Oh well, maybe some day...
October 10th, 2021 at 11:32 AM ^
You’re getting unfairly negged by clear sarcasm.
October 10th, 2021 at 11:05 PM ^
Yes, but I'm unrepentant.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:45 PM ^
I loved that fire!!! HB was excited and that scores with his players! You know your coach is into what you just put on the field!! You want to play hard for him and your team
October 9th, 2021 at 11:29 PM ^
If Cade can't run the zone read and the coaches are dead set on running it, they have to go to JJ. I like Cade and think he's played pretty well, but wtf are we doing!?
October 9th, 2021 at 11:47 PM ^
We're winning.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:01 AM ^
Not just winning, we're giving Scott Frost a punch to the soul dong while winning. That's always a good thing. But man it would be better to crush his soul while winning.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:37 AM ^
Pretty sure his soul, dong, and soul dong were well and truly crushed. I almost felt sorry for him. As a human.
Almost.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:49 AM ^
Not me. I didn't feel sorry for him one bit. I never will. And, yes, i agree his soul, and the rest of him, were crushed. One look at his face as he walked off the field was enough to convince anyone of that.
I'm just astonished at how he keeps losing games where his players out-hit the other side.
October 10th, 2021 at 7:25 AM ^
There is definitely some kind of weird mojo working against him at Nebraska. That kept me way calmer during the game than I normally would be. I just knew somehow his "curse" would kick in at some point in this game.
October 9th, 2021 at 11:30 PM ^
It went a hell of a lot better than our last trip to Nebraska did.
They came back from Cade's interception and the touchdown that came on the next play. It was definitely closer than I would have liked, but they took advantage of a break at the end and pulled it out. I'll take it, and I hope they fix some of the issues we saw for Northwestern and Michigan State.
I am also really fucking certain that Nebraska would like to replay the Illinois game again.
October 9th, 2021 at 11:31 PM ^
I'll admit, I wanted UofM to pass on that 3rd and 6, thinking that a 1st down means we run the clock down for an easy field goal. Also if we didn't pick it up, Nebraska had a lot of time so 1 time out isn't a huge deal.
Glad to be wrong.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:08 AM ^
They definitely should have passed on 3rd and 6. You don't want to give them the ball back with over a minute left but it worked out thankfully.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:09 AM ^
They definitely should have passed on 3rd and 6. You don't want to give them the ball back with over a minute left but it worked out thankfully.
October 10th, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
I up voted your first thread but not your second. You are clearly trying for extra upvotes there and you're not getting them from me buster !!!
October 10th, 2021 at 1:05 AM ^
This was my only complaint. Nebraska clearly had that play snuffed out if you look at how their ends and linebackers played it. Both the give and the keep were dead. Perfect opportunity for a RPO. That being said, I don’t mind the conservative call that much. Just hope they add some more wrinkles into the game plan for JJ in the future.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:09 AM ^
Mostly agree - a serious attempt at a 1st down and sealing the game is probably worth more than the last TO in that situation. OTOH the lack of a timeout is probably the reason they run a desperation fade on 4th and 10 that Dax breaks up, rather than a play that might actually have a chance of working.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:36 AM ^
Nope. No pass. I honestly would have preferred a run between the tackles, which Nebraska throws everything at but has at least a small chance of going further than the line and in the meantime is completely safe.
You do. not. risk. turning the ball over there. And, further, you do not stop the clock. Don't leave Nebraska any room to keep the ball on the ground, keep them out of time outs.
Remember, on fourth down going the other way, Nebraska needed a long play to convert, and they were rushing to get the play off because the clock was draining fast. They've got either an extra 30 seconds or a time out to talk it over if we throw an incompletion there.
I think there are times our staff does not go for the throat the way they should, but this was not one of those times. They kept the ball on the ground, and that was the right move. I didn't like the precise call, but they did what they had to, and it had a positive effect on the outcome.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:55 AM ^
I think it depends on what type of pass. A short throw would be fine with run after catch potential and something better than run run run. The 1st down call was fine because you are just trying to see if you can run for the 1st down.
October 10th, 2021 at 7:30 AM ^
I agree. I was hoping for play action there. McNamara is pretty trustworthy to make a safe decision. The way Martinez was moving the ball the 2nd half, I didn't want to give it back to them only up a FG.
October 10th, 2021 at 9:30 AM ^
Remember, on fourth down going the other way, Nebraska needed a long play to convert, and they were rushing to get the play off because the clock was draining fast. They've got either an extra 30 seconds or a time out to talk it over if we throw an incompletion there.
Generally speaking you are making a good point, but that specific isn't true. Go back and watch the video. The clock was stopped at exactly 1:00 and Nebraska snapped the ball with 23 seconds on the play clock. Nebraska didn't rush that 4th down play in.
October 10th, 2021 at 9:55 AM ^
Here is a link to this exact moment.
It was Scott Frost that was hurrying up, apparently to try and catch UofM off guard on defense not because there was a concern about time. A full minute at the 50 yard line down by 3 is very doable in terms of time. Clock stopped at 1:00, ball snapped with 23 seconds on the play clock, 4th and 10.
October 10th, 2021 at 11:27 AM ^
With no timeouts, though, it's not really a lot of time.
October 10th, 2021 at 11:59 AM ^
In the college game with clock stoppages after 1st downs, with an explosive offense like Nebraska's, having 1:00 on the clock at the 50 yard line, needing only a field goal is more than enough time. 15 more yards and Nebraska is attempting a game tying field goal.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
Nebraska's placekicker is terrible - he'd never make one from that distance. But yeah, they had time.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:15 PM ^
My question...
WHY WAS THE CLOCK STOPPED?? -- If you watch the replay it was counting down to like 0:54 and then went up to 1:00 and paused until the snap. The previous play was in-bounds and Nebraska had no timeouts. I think we would have been dealing with some "Spartan Bob" level clock conspiracy if UNL had somehow completed that 4th down.
October 10th, 2021 at 1:55 PM ^
It looks like the ref ruled that the Nebraska player did just enough to fall with the ball touching out of bounds as the ref didn't signal to keep the clock running. Not sure on the exact rule of what the player has to do to be out of bounds and it is unclear if the player did in fact get the ball out of bounds.
They reset the clock back to 1:00, but if he was ruled out of bounds it should have been reset to 1:03.
Had the player not gotten the ball out of bounds and the clocked kept running it looks like 4th down would have been snapped at ~0:45.
P.S. After Spartan Bob didn't they make a BigTen official in charge of the clock for all BigTen games?
October 9th, 2021 at 11:31 PM ^
I think we played a very good team today. Much better than their record indicates. Another road win against (in my opinion) a well coached team. This was a BIG win for us tonight and I know there were some struggles on both sides of the ball at times but we won. Period! I of course wish our offense was a bit more explosive to get out to bigger leads and sustain drives at times (so our D is not out on the field too often) but all in all I thought it was well coached on both sides of the ball. Two of those scores by Nebraska were just really well designed plays that fooled our D. Again I think Nebraska is a solid team and we beat just that, a solid team on the road. Couldn't be happier to walk out of that stadium with a tough fought win.
Also ..... Jake Moody ..... thank you!
October 9th, 2021 at 11:33 PM ^
Thankfully Frost and Martinez gave that game away.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:38 AM ^
Of course that's your take. Michigan could've won by 30 and you'd find something to bitch about.
October 10th, 2021 at 9:10 AM ^
But they didn’t ?
October 10th, 2021 at 10:08 AM ^
You proved his point.
October 10th, 2021 at 5:25 PM ^
You weren't exactly a beacon of positivity through the first 5 games.
October 10th, 2021 at 12:44 AM ^
Martinez didn't give the ball to Hawkins....Senior captain went and took it for the W
October 9th, 2021 at 11:34 PM ^
The last play by JJ wasn’t a good call when you know you need a fg to win and the first half where we were three inches from the end zone, it should have been a no brained qb sneak. The no timeout where we did a late defensive sub wasn’t good either. I’ll take those when we win.
October 9th, 2021 at 11:34 PM ^
Was it just me or did it look like every time they showed Scott Frost, he was waiting for an anvil to hit him in the head, or stroke out, or have a heart attack?
October 9th, 2021 at 11:44 PM ^
He dodged Molly like a married man dodging bar hookups
October 10th, 2021 at 12:01 AM ^
Jim's a lot smarter than Urban ever will be
October 10th, 2021 at 12:03 AM ^
Geez, Urban would have never done that!
October 10th, 2021 at 12:07 AM ^
Urban can analyze this fantastic play until next weekend!